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Ride the High Country 9/10 with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea. Great little overlooked western. Nice scenery. Well played by all. Sense of nostagia wafts through the film about two old cowboys on their last adventure. Supporting cast of Peckinpah favourites fill out the cast- RG Armstrong, Warren Oates, LQ Jones. Nice score by Bassman.
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Two Rode Together 8/10 with James Stewart and Richard Widmark. Enjoyable yarn where the two leads to and retrieve white prisoners held by th'indians. Stewart is little bit more unsavoury than usual, which was nice. All filled out with familiar Ford favourites, Woody Strode looking extra muscly, here.
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joan hue
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Damian, I love The High Country!
22 July: 8 out of 10
On July 22, 2011, Anders Breivik, an uber right wing nut who gave the Nazi salute in his courtroom trial, blew up a government building in Oslo, which killed 8 people and wounded many others. Then he went to an island with 100 teenage summer campers and killed 69 teens.
It is hard to watch at times, but it wasn’t bloody or gory. It at times seems like a documentary, but it humanizes some of the victims and Anders’ lawyer. We see the event and then follow the arduous journey of a teen victim trying to recover from 5 gunshot wounds, and one was to his brain. He did testify at Anders’ trial. Anders has zero remorse and felt he was a soldier (Knights of the Templar) who had to rid Europe of immigrants. He felt nothing for the young people he killed as he saw them as Marxist and Elitists.
Acting was pretty good. The politics were clear. I felt that the Norse people were more stoic than Americans would have been. Not sure if that is true. It sounded like the Norse government upped its security after this event, and I’m not sure if it changed its view on immigration.
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Upstairs, Downstairs (1959) 6/10 with Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Sid James ,James Robertson Justice and a bevy of European beauties ( including Claudia Cardinale, Mylene Demongeot, Barbara Steele, Joan Simms and Joan Hickson). A nice little comedy, though not hilarious. Decent cast played things well. Hickson's drink was class. It was also a novelty hearing the three euro stars using their own voice for a change.
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Collide
2017
Pile of shit for 12 year olds.
Not worth anymore words except it was waste of Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins, who did their best to be caricature gangsters.
4 out of 10.
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Breakthrough (1979) 6/10 with Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum. Sort of crap but still watchable, never boring. Enough blowin' up and shootin' to keep people happy. Peter Thomas's music was ok but out of place in context. Nice to see Burton as Dai Steiner.
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Hustlers - 7/10
A sweet tale of friendship somewhat mired in the Scorsese playbook of Mobsters 101 (this time with strippers!), replete with anachronistic tunes, backstabbing, time jumps, upping the stakes, jargon narration which spends a few seconds to explain "the business" in a way that if you blinked your ears, you missed it, and the kind of rookie mistakes that made me think "Well, if they had just seen Goodfellas, all this hardship would've been avoided"... but still, a sweet tale of friendship. Not sure if this was worth the strife of a defamation lawsuit.
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Breakthrough (1979) 6/10 with Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum. Sort of crap but still watchable, never boring. Enough blowin' up and shootin' to keep people happy. Peter Thomas's music was ok but out of place in context. Nice to see Burton as Dai Steiner.
Ha! What i said last week about Breakthrough Damian.
Watching a truly bad war film. McGlagen's loose cross of iron follow up. I saw it on vhs i think on release and it was bad!!! Lots of explosions and some good names wasted - Burton, mitchum, steiner, curt jurgs, all speaking terribly false dialogue like they couldnt wait to get their 3 scenes wrapped coz they had a dentist appointment. Messy, silly plot and awful out of place music by Peter thomas, possibly the worst score ive ever heard.
I was fascinated to see if it was as bad as i remember and it was truly appalling!
Screening on talking pictures, so beware!
4 out of 10
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Breakthrough (1979) 6/10 with Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum. Sort of crap but still watchable, never boring. Enough blowin' up and shootin' to keep people happy. Peter Thomas's music was ok but out of place in context. Nice to see Burton as Dai Steiner.
Ha! What i said last week about Breakthrough Damian.
Watching a truly bad war film. McGlagen's loose cross of iron follow up. I saw it on vhs i think on release and it was bad!!! Lots of explosions and some good names wasted - Burton, mitchum, steiner, curt jurgs, all speaking terribly false dialogue like they couldnt wait to get their 3 scenes wrapped coz they had a dentist appointment. Messy, silly plot and awful out of place music by Peter thomas, possibly the worst score ive ever heard.
I was fascinated to see if it was as bad as i remember and it was truly appalling!
Screening on talking pictures, so beware!
4 out of 10
Maybe all true but I didn't turn it off 
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A skyful of stars for a roof
Petroni directed, Gemma stars, Ennio score.
Not the best western, couldnt seem to decide if it wanted to be serious or a trinity style comedy. And was a bit of both. Like a lot of spaghettis, lost its way in the middle. So many seemed to start a plot ok but be unco-ordinated filler until the finale.
However superb score - with Alessandroni working overtime - made it watchable
5.7 out of 10
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A skyful of stars for a roof
Petroni directed, Gemma stars, Ennio score.
Not the best western, couldnt seem to decide if it wanted to be serious or a trinity style comedy. And was a bit of both. Like a lot of spaghettis, lost its way in the middle. So many seemed to start a plot ok but be unco-ordinated filler until the finale.
However superb score - with Alessandroni working overtime - made it watchable
5.7 out of 10
Even so I'm a big Gemma fan. So is mother, though for different reasons.
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Penny Gold
1973
(talking pictures)
The kind of murder thriller i loved back in 70s (aged 12), and after i saw Thriller i always liked Francesca Annis.
Overall tho this was like a cheap tv movie, with James Booth n Joss Acklund going thru the motions in what was fairly stilted script. Music by John Scott sounded like he was copying Michael J Lewis.
5.7 out of 10.
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